Skip to main content

Home/ CJHS ELA Author Talk/ Group items matching "THIS" in title, tags, annotations or url

Group items matching
in title, tags, annotations or url

Sort By: Relevance | Date Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
8More

Teenreads.com - THE CLIQUE Series by Lisi Harrison - 1 views

www.teenreads.com/...series-clique-author.asp author cjhs lisi harrison
shared by Mason McCord [: on 18 Apr 11 - Cached
    • Whitney Gilliamm((:
      Whitney Gilliamm((: on 20 Apr 11
       
      She wrote her books about her childhood!! Well......mostly!
    • Mason McCord [:
      Mason McCord [: on 25 Apr 11
       
      Whitney you were here too! cool!!
    • Mason McCord [:
      Mason McCord [: on 25 Apr 11
       
      <3 mason
    • Mason McCord [:
      Mason McCord [: on 03 May 11
       
      Wow that is cool she had a lot of drama in her childhood! lol
  • Author Information Lisi Harrison was born in the fashion capital of our neighbor to the north, Toronto, Canada. She was the Queen Bee of many cliques and kept copious records of them in the journals she always had with her --- a hobby she has to this day. After university, Lisi moved to New York City where she began a career creating and developing shows for MTV, including "Room Raiders." Lisi also was the head writer for MTV Productions and a columnist for Jane magazine. Now that she has given up the glamour to write for teens full time, Lisi is currently at work on the next book in The Clique series with creative consulting done by Bee Bee, her fashionista Chihuahua.
  • Author Information Lisi Harrison was born in the fashion capital of our neighbor to the north, Toronto, Canada. She was the Queen Bee of many cliques and kept copious records of them in the journals she always had with her --- a hobby she has to this day. After university, Lisi moved to New York City where she began a career creating and developing shows for MTV, including "Room Raiders." Lisi also was the head writer for MTV Productions and a columnist for Jane magazine. Now that she has given up the glamour to write for teens full time, Lisi is currently at work on the next book in The Clique series with creative consulting done by Bee Bee, her fashionista Chihuahua.
  • Nicole Hicks on 18 Apr 11
     
    Great information about Lisi Harrison, author of The Clique Series.
  • Whitney Gilliamm((: on 11 May 11
     
    I love you mason
1More

Rick Riordan's latest book: Throne of Fire, to launch at Princeton Barnes &amp; Noble May 3... - 0 views

www.prlog.org/barnes-noble-may-3-at-6pm.html rick riordan cjhs author
shared by Nicole Hicks on 18 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Nicole Hicks on 18 Apr 11
     
    This talks about a new book coming out by Rick Riordan.
14More

Ohio Reading Road Trip | Margaret Peterson Haddix Biography - 1 views

www.orrt.org/haddix margaret peterson haddix cjhs author
shared by autumn holder on 20 Apr 11 - No Cached
Carly Felty liked it
    • Carly Felty
      Carly Felty on 20 Apr 11
       
      Read on this has a lot of good info!!
    • autumn holder
      autumn holder on 04 May 11
       
      wow this has really a lot of information i think i might use it..... and i didn't even know you were using it i just looked it up and boom it was there.... lol
  • loved if she became a journalist. So when she attended college at Miami University in Oxford, Haddix majored in English and began writing for the school newspaper by the end of her freshman year.
  • (two brothers and one sister),
  • ...10 more annotations...
  • "What I hated was not any particular subject, but anything that reeked of busy work; all the pointless assignments that took a lot of time but taught me nothing.
  • e wild and entertaining
  • Though her dad's stories sparked an interest in writing, life in a small town afforded
  • addix grew up on a farm in Washington Courthouse, Ohio - the same small town where her family has lived since the early 1800s.
  • l the while, though, Haddix worried that her rising career in journalism was distracting her from her true calling: that of a fiction writer.
  • offer in Illinois, Haddix quit her job at the Indianapolis News and moved north with him. There, she worked various part-time and temporary jobs, including English teacher at a community college in Danville, in order to start he
  • as two ch
  • novels, including the first three of seven books in the "Among the…" series (Among the Barons, Among the Betrayed, and Among the Imposters). She's currently working on book four, Among the Brave, and another, nonseries title, called Say What? She has won an International Reading Association Children's Book Award, and the American Library Association has na
  • es writing for young audiences, Haddix replied: "Teenagers are naturally such good characters in books. They hav
  • Her father was a farmer and her mother, a nurse; her time as a young woman was equally split between home and farm chores with her three siblings
1More

The Hub TV Networks | Watch Episode Clips | Full Episodes | Behind the Scenes | Hubworl... - 1 views

www.hubworld.com/videos cjhs author r l stine tv on the hub
shared by victoria fuller on 25 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • victoria fuller on 25 Apr 11
     
    Some r.l stine videos are on this channel
1More

R.L. Stine - 0 views

rlstine.com author cjhs rl stine
shared by Nicole Hicks on 18 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Nicole Hicks on 18 Apr 11
     
    SCARY! This is The World of R.L. Stine!!
1More

Welcome to the Official Site of Sharon Draper - 0 views

sharondraper.com authors cjhs author sharon draper
shared by Nicole Hicks on 18 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Nicole Hicks on 18 Apr 11
     
    This is a super website about Sharon Draper.
3More

lisi harrison - Bing Images - 0 views

www.bing.com/...search cjhs author harrison lisi
shared by Mason McCord [: on 20 Apr 11 - No Cached
    • Mason McCord [:
      Mason McCord [: on 20 Apr 11
       
      She is really pretty is anybody else doing Lisi??
    • Emily=) bowles
      Emily=) bowles on 20 Apr 11
       
      She is a great author
  • Mason McCord [: on 20 Apr 11
     
    This is what Lisi Harrison looks like.
1More

meg cabot - Bing Images - 1 views

www.bing.com/...search meg cabot cjhs author
shared by Shelby Tomlinson on 20 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Shelby Tomlinson on 20 Apr 11
     
    This is a picture of Meg Cabot. I don't know what year though.
1More

gary paulsen - Bing Images - 0 views

www.bing.com/...search author cjhs gary paulsen
shared by Nicole Hicks on 20 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Nicole Hicks on 20 Apr 11
     
    This is what the author of Hatchet looks like.
17More

Gary Paulsen: Biography from Answers.com - 0 views

www.answers.com/...-children-s-author-illustrator cjhs author gary paulsen
shared by justin moore on 25 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • A writer of popular and finely wrought young adult novels and nonfiction with sales totaling more than three million worldwide, Gary Paulsen joined a select group of YA writers when he received the 1997 Margaret A. Edwards Award honoring an author's lifetime achievement in writing books for teens. His work is widely praised by critics, and he has been awarded Newbery Medal Honor Book citations for three of his books, Dogsong, Hatchet, and The Winter Room.
  • In prose lean and echoing of Hemingway, Paulsen creates powerful young adult fiction, often set in wilderness or rural areas and featuring teenagers who arrive at self-awareness by way of experiences in nature—through challenging tests of their own survival instincts—or through the ministrations of understanding adults. He displays an "extraordinary ability to picture for the reader how man's comprehension of life can be transformed with the lessons of nature," wrote Evie Wilson in Voice of Youth Advocates. "With humor and psychological genius, Paulsen develops strong adolescent characters who lend new power to youth's plea to be allowed to apply individual skills in their risk-taking." In addition to writing young adult fiction, Paulsen has also authored numerous picture books with his illustrator wife R. W. Paulsen, penned children's nonfiction, and authored two plays and many works of adult fiction and nonfiction.
  • Paulsen was born in Minnesota in 1939, the son of first-generation Danish and Swedish parents. During his childhood, he saw little of his father, who served in the military in Europe during World War II, and little of his mother, who worked in a Chicago ammunitions factory. "I was reared by my grandmother and several aunts," he once told Something about the Author. "I first saw my father when I was seven in the Philippines where my parents and I lived from 1946 to 1949." Writing of that experience a half century later in Riverbank Review, Paulsen noted that he "lived essentially as a street child in Manila, because my parents were alcoholics and I was not supervised. The effect was profound and lasting."
  • ...13 more annotations...
  • When the family returned to the United States, Paulsen suffered from being continually uprooted. "We moved around constantly....The longest time I spent in one school was for about five months," Paulsen once told SATA. "I was an 'Army brat,' and it was a miserable life. School was a nightmare because I was unbelievably shy, and terrible at sports. . . . I wound up skipping most of the ninth grade." In addition to problems at school, he faced many ordeals at home. "My father drank a lot, and there would be terrible arguments," he noted. Eventually Paulsen was sent again to live with relatives and worked to support himself with jobs as a newspaper boy and as a pin-setter in a bowling alley.
  • Things began to change for the better during his teen years. He found security and support with his grandmother and aunts—"safety nets" as he described them in his interview. A turning point in his life came one sub-zero winter day when, as he was walking past the public library, he decided to stop in to warm himself. "To my absolute astonishment the librarian walked up to me and asked if I wanted a library card," he related. "When she handed me the card, she handed me the world. I can't even describe how liberating it was. She recommended westerns and science fiction but every now and then would slip in a classic. I roared through everything she gave me and in the summer read a book a day. It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five-gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank."
  • After just barely graduating from high school in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, in 1959, Paulsen attended Bemidji College in Minnesota, for two years, paying for his tuition with money he'd earned as a trapper for the state of Minnesota. When he flunked out of college, he joined the U.S. Army, serving from 1959 to 1962, and working with missiles. After his tour of duty was completed, he took extension courses to become a certified field engineer, finding work in the aerospace departments of the Bendix and Lockheed corporations. There it occurred to him that he might try and become a writer. "I'd finished reading a magazine article on flight-testing . . . and thought, gad, what a way to make a living—writing about something you like and getting paid for it!" he told F. Serdahely in Writer's Digest. "I remembered writing some of my past reports, some fictionalized versions I'd included. And I thought: 'What the hell, I am an engineering writer.' But, conversely, I also realized I didn't know a thing about writing professionally. After several hours of hard thinking, a way to learn came to me. All I had to do was go to work editing a magazine."
  • Creating a fictitious resume, Paulsen was able to obtain an associate editor position on a men's magazine in Hollywood, California. Although it soon became apparent to his employers that he had no editorial experience, he once told SATA that "they could see I was serious about wanting to learn, and they were willing to teach me." He spent nearly a year with the magazine, finding it "the best of all possible ways to learn about writing. It probably did more to improve my craft and ability than any other single event in my life." Still living in California, Paulsen also found work as a film extra (he once played a drunken Indian in a movie called Flap), and took up sculpting as a hobby, even winning first prize in a local exhibition.
  • Paulsen's first book, The Special War, was published in 1966, and he soon proved himself to be one of the most prolific authors in the United States. In little over a decade, working mainly out of northern Minnesota—where he returned after becoming disillusioned with Hollywood—he published nearly forty books and close to two hundred articles and stories for magazines. Among Paulsen's diverse titles were a number of children's nonfiction books about animals, a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., several humorous titles under the "Sports on the Light Side" series published by Raintree Press, two plays, adult fiction and nonfiction, as well as some initial ventures into juvenile fiction. On a bet with a friend, he once wrote eleven articles and short stories inside four days and sold all of them.H
  • prolific output was interrupted by a libel lawsuit brought against his 1977 young adult novel Winterkill, the powerful story of a semi-delinquent boy befriended by a hard-bitten cop named Duda in a small Minnesota town. Paulsen eventually won the case, but, as he noted, "the whole situation was so nasty and ugly that I stopped writing. I wanted nothing more to do with publishing and burned my bridges, so to speak." Unable to earn any other type of living, he went back to trapping for the state of Minnesota, working his sixty-mile trap line on foot or skis.
  • To help Paulsen in his hunting job, a friend gave him a team of sled dogs, a gift that ultimately had a profound influence on Paulsen. "One day, about midnight, we were crossing Clear Water Lake, which is about three miles long," Paulsen recounted. "There was a full moon shining so brightly on the snow you could read by it. There was no one around, and all I could hear was the rhythm of the dogs' breathing as they pulled the sled." The intensity of the moment prompted an impulsive seven-day trip by Paulsen through northern Minnesota. "I didn't go home—my wife was frantic—I didn't check lines, I just ran the dogs....For food, we had a few beaver carcasses. . . . I was initiated into this incredibly ancient and very beautiful bond, and it was as if everything that had happened to me before ceased to exist." Paulsen afterwards made a resolution to permanently give up hunting and trapping, and proceeded to pursue dogsled racing as a hobby. He went so far as to enter the grueling twelve-hundred-mile Iditarod race in Alaska, an experience that later provided the basis for his award-winning novel Dogsong.
  • well."
  • Paulsen's 1987 novel Hatchet, also a Newbery honor book, tells the story of Brian, a thirteen-year-old thoroughly modern boy who is forced to survive alone in the Canadian woods after a plane crash. Like Russel in Dogsong, Hatchet's hero is also transformed by the wilderness. "By the time he is rescued, Brian is permanently changed," noted Suzanne Rahn in Twentieth-Century Children's Writers; "he is far more observant and thoughtful, and knows what is really important in his life." As noted in Children's Books and Their Creators, Hatchet became "one of the most popular adventure stories of all time," combining "elementary language with a riveting plot to produce a book both comprehensible and enjoyable for those children who frequently equate reading with frustration."
  • Hatchet proved so popular with readers that they demanded, and won, a number of sequels: The River, Brian's Winter, Brian's Return, and Brian's Hunt. In Brian's Hunt, Paulsen "delivers a gripping, gory tale about survival in the north woods, based on a real bear attack," noted Paula Rohrlick in Kliatt.
  • In My Life in Dog's Years, The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer, Eastern Sun, Winter Moon, and Guts: The True Stories behind Hatchet and the Brian Books, Paulsen recounts stories from his own life, many of which he has fictionalized in his young adult books. While most of the remembrances are intended for an adult audience, one of his most powerful memoirs for young readers is Woodsong, an autobiographical account of his life in Minnesota and Alaska while preparing his sled dogs to run the Iditarod. A reviewer noted in Horn Book that the "lure of the wilderness is always a potent draw, and Paulsen evokes its mysteries as well as anyone since Jack London." In another memoir intended for a young adult audience, How Angel Peterson Got His Name and Other Outrageous Tales about Extreme Sports, Paulsen recalls a number of daredevil stunts he and his friends performed during their early teen years. "Paulsen laces his tales with appealing '50s details and broad asides about the boys' personalities, ingenuity, and idiocy," noted a reviewer in Publishers Weekly.
  • Paulsen tells of a different kind of growing up in Harris and Me: A Summer Remembered. Instead of the main character reaching maturity while struggling in the wilderness, in Harris the unnamed protagonist discovers a sense of belonging while spending a summer on his relatives' farm. A child of abusive and alcoholic parents, the young narrator is sent to live with another set of relations—his uncle's family—and there he meets the reckless Harris, who leads him in escapades involving playing Tarzan in the loft of the barn and using pig pens as the stage for G.I. Joe games. "Through it all," explained a reviewer for Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, "the lonely hero imperceptibly learns about belonging." In Voice of Youth Advocates, Penny Blubaugh pointed out that "for the first time in his life [the narrator] finds himself surrounded by love."
  • In books like Nightjohn and Mr. Tucket Paulsen draws on history for literary inspiration. Nightjohn is set in the nineteenth-century South and revolves around Sarny, a young slave girl who risks severe punishment when she is persuaded to learn to read by Nightjohn, a runaway slave who has just been recaptured. A commentator for Kirkus Reviews called Nightjohn "a searing picture of slavery" and an "unbearably vivid book."Sarny is reprised as a character in Sarny: A Life Remembered, in which the former slave narrates her life in 1930, at the ripe old age of ninety-four. A focal point of the woman's story is the fact that she learned to read: this saves her on more than one occasion. Sarny' "story makes absorbing reading," concluded Bruce Anne Shook in a School Library Journal review.
  • justin moore on 25 Apr 11
     
    About Gary paulsen point of veiw over his own very popular stories of Hachete, something, an somthing...
1More

Hit and Run by Lurlene McDaniel « Young Adult Book Reviews - 0 views

youngadultbookreviews.com/...it-and-run-by-lurlene-mcdaniel hit and run lurlene mcdaniel cjhs
shared by Leslie Blankenship on 25 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Leslie Blankenship on 25 Apr 11
     
    I'm reading this
1More

harry mazer - Bing Images - 0 views

www.bing.com/...search harry mazer cjhs author
shared by nick wood on 25 Apr 11 - No Cached
    • nick wood
      nick wood on 25 Apr 11
       
      this is about one of his books
1More

chapters.indigo.ca: Angels In Pink: Kathleen's Story: Lurlene Mcdaniel: Books - 0 views

www.chapters.indigo.ca/...9780385901932-item.html lurlene mcdaniel cjhs
shared by Leslie Blankenship on 25 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Random House Children's Books | December 28, 2004 | Reinforced Library Binding It's the summer after sophomore year and Raina has convinced her best friends since the sixth grade, Kathleen and Holly, to spend their summer as "pink angels" in Parker-Sloan General Hospital's summer volunteer program. Kathleen is reluctant to
45More

R.L. Stine Biography | Author Bio | Books | Rotten School | Fear Street | Goosebumps | ... - 2 views

www.kidzworld.com/...5866-rl-stine-biography CJHS ELA Author Talk R.L. stine
shared by Emily=) bowles on 25 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Birthdate: October 8, 1943 Birthplace: Columbus, Ohio Real Name: Robert Lawrence Stine
  • scaring kids
  • 20 years
  • ...40 more annotations...
  • Courtesy of HarperCollins
  • climbed up into his attic and found an old typewriter
  • nine years old
  • joke books
  • writing ever since
  • humor
  • editor
  • ten years
  • make kids laugh
  • do have a phobia that my nephews think is just insane - I cannot jump into water. I have to step into swimming pools. It's a real phobia, but my nephews think it's hilarious that this scary guy is so terrified of jumping into water."
  • magazin
  • Banana
  • rom the Ohio State University,
  • graduated f
  • small magazines
  • start writing novels
  • 28 years old
  • Goosebumps
  • y Nickelodeon TV show,
  • The Nightmare Room
  • a TV Show.
  • he set out
  • 1989 - R.L. Stine team
  • best-seller.
  • ed up with Parachute Press to release his first horror series,
  • R.L. Stine used to write for a children's humor magazine called Bananas. He was known as Jovial Bob Stine.
  • which was aimed at 9-14 year olds
  • 1986 - R.L. Stine wrote Blind Date, his first scary novel for teens. It immediately became a
  • 1992 - R.L. Stine releases a new book series - Goosebumps. This series is aimed at younger kids, but still delivers some scary tales. The book series eventually spun off into
  • R.L. Stine has a son named Matt who is 25 years old.
  • R.L. Stine's books have been translated into more than 28 languages and are best-sellers around the world!
  • R.L. Stine writes an average of two books a month!
  • R.L. Stine comes up with the titles of his books first and then works from there, while most authors come up with the title last.
  • R.L. Stine was named the #1 best-selling author in America for three straight years between 1994 and 1996
  • ries like
  • for more than
  • He's bee
  • with s
  • writing
  • Fear Street,
  • victoria fuller on 25 Apr 11
     
    Some facts about R. l Stine.
  • Emily=) bowles on 03 May 11
     
    Phobias and about how he writes
1More

Gary Paulsen: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article - 0 views

www.absoluteastronomy.com/...Gary_Paulsen cjhs author gary paulsen
shared by justin moore on 25 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • justin moore on 25 Apr 11
     
    this is a overview of gfarypaulsen...
1More

LitLovers - Swindle Discussion Questions - Book Review - Book Club Guide - 0 views

www.litlovers.com/...1014-swindle-korman about the author
shared by jarred hatchette on 25 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • jarred hatchette on 25 Apr 11
     
    Gordon Korman was born in Montreal, Canada, and grew up in the Toronto area. Since he had no brothers, sisters, or pets, he started writing to keep himself entertained. Then his 7th-grade English teacher gave the class an exciting assignment: "He gave us four months-45 minutes a day!-to work on the story of our choice. My project was This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, which became my first published book. I happened to be the class monitor for the Scholastic TAB Book Club, so I figured I was practically a Scholastic employee already! I sent my novel to the address on the TAB flyer, and a few days after my 14th birthday, I had a book contract with Scholastic." By the time Korman graduated from high school, he had published five other novels and several articles for Canadian newspapers. He then moved to New York City, where he studied film and dramatic writing at New York University. Known for his funny, realistic novels for children and young adults, Korman has also collaborated with his mother on two books of poetry written by the fictional character Jeremy Bloom. Never short for ideas, Korman is grateful to the real kids he meets for inspiration: "The best place to get ideas is at the schools I visit. No matter how inventive we writers try to be, the real characters are always the best ones." Gordon Korman lives in Great Neck, New York, with his wife and son.
1More

Garth Nix biography, books, interviews and reviews on Fantasy Book Review - 1 views

www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/...biography.html cjhs author garth nix
shared by Damon Lahar on 25 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Damon Lahar on 25 Apr 11
     
    i think this website will help people find things on people.
6More

Harry Mazer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/Harry_Mazer harry wikipedia mazer cjhs author
shared by nick wood on 03 May 11 - No Cached
  • (born May 31, 1925 in New York City) is an American author of books for children and young adults, acclaimed for his “realistic” novels. He has written twenty-two novels, including The Solid Gold Kid,
  • The Island Keeper, Heroes Don't Run, and Snow Bound,
  • which was adapted as an NBC after school special, as well as one work of poetry and a few short stories.[1]
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • After attending the Bronx High School of Science Mazer served in World War II in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1943–45. He became a sergeant, and he received a Purple Heart and an Air Medal with four bronze oak leaf clusters after his B-17 bomber was shot down over Czechoslovakia in April 1945. His wartime experiences eventually inspired several works of historical fiction, including The Last Mission and A Boy at War. After returning to the U.S., Mazer went to Union College, where he earned a BA in 1948. From 1950 to 1955 he was a railroad brakeman and switchtender for New York Central. He was an English teacher in upstate New York at the
  • Central Square School for a year, in 1959. In 1960 he received a M.A. from Syracuse University. He has won numerous awards including several 'Best Books' designations from the American Library Association, The Knickerbocker Award from the New York Library Association (2001), and The ALAN Award for Contributions to Young Adult Literature (2003). Mazer co-authored three books with his late wife, Norma Fox Mazer. He is the father of author Anne Mazer.
  • nick wood on 03 May 11
     
    this is about harry mazer were he went to school and born etc.
1More

Indy.com | Photos | Indianapolis, Indiana - 1 views

www.indy.com/220611 meg cabot cjhs author
shared by Shelby Tomlinson on 03 May 11 - No Cached
  • Shelby Tomlinson on 03 May 11
     
    This is her one eyed cat Henrietta.
1More

Google Image Result for http://www.prlog.org/10109581-meg-cabot-copyright-ali-smith.jpg - 1 views

www.google.com/imgres cjhs author meg cabot
shared by Shelby Tomlinson on 03 May 11 - No Cached
  • Shelby Tomlinson on 03 May 11
     
    This picture of Henrietta should show up. The other one never showed up... :(
‹ Previous 21 - 40 of 89 Next › Last »
Showing 20▼ items per page